Chapter 176:
As soon as Qiao Mu said this…
The old woman standing next to him, looking into the distance at the stone forest, appeared visibly stunned. She instinctively gripped the railing beside her, her knuckles turning slightly white. It was evident that her heart was not at peace.
"Mr. Qiao is just joking," the old woman’s tone, however, remained calm.
"The Inhuman War has been going on for forty years. Even if there were survivors after the war, not everyone perished. Can they really defend this desert for forty years?"
"Even if it’s a strange story made up by a storyteller, it would be incredibly absurd for a decimated and isolated army to defend a city for forty years. Even storytellers wouldn’t dare to invent such a tale."
The old woman paused, and her gaze swept towards the small town beyond the gates.
"In this town, most of the people are relatives of the hundred thousand soldiers from the past. Many of them used to hold onto hope years ago, but now the number of people in the town is gradually decreasing."
"What a long forty years," the old woman’s gaze grew distant, and her silver-white long hair fluttered in the wind.
"The lifespan of martial artists is not much longer than that of ordinary people. Forty years of time can turn youth into white hair and heroes into old age."